The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is delighted to announce the finalists selected for its inaugural Science Media Awards Competition. This year’s entries included 280 films entering more than 450 categories to compete for 18 special awards. More than 80 international judges screened an aggregated 1500+ hours in order to determine the finalists.

The 2012 award winners will be selected by a distinguished panel of judges preceding the three-day JHWFF Symposium 2012, an industry conference hosted at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science September 5-7, and will be announced at a Gala celebration on Thursday, September 6th.

China’s Ghost Army (A Natural History New Zealand & Shaanxi TV Production for National Geographic Channels with THIRTEEN and WNET.ORG)

The Grammar of Happiness (Essential Media and Entertainment and Smithsonian Channel)

PROGRAM CATEGORIES:

Best Series or Limited Series

Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide (Essential Media and Entertainment)NOVA: The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene (A NOVA Production by 32-12 Media, The Film Posse, Spine Films, and Lone Wolf Documentary Group, with ARTE France and National Geographic Channel)

Through the Wormhole? with Morgan Freeman (The Incubator, Revelations Entertainment and Science Channel)

The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene: Quantum Leap (A NOVA Production by Spine Films, with ARTE France and National Geographic Channel; Written by: Josh Rosen, Julia Cort and Joseph McMaster. Based on the book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene)

The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene: What is Space? (A NOVA Production by 32-12 Media, with ARTE France and National Geographic Channel; Written by: Graham Judd, Sabin Streeter and Joseph McMaster. Based on the book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene)

NOVA: Secrets Beneath the Ice; A NOVA Production by NET Television and Lone Wolf Documentary Group for WGBH / Boston; Written by: Steven Reich and Gary Hochman)

NOVA: The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene: The Illusion of Time (A NOVA Production by The Film Posse, with ARTE France & National Geographic Channel; Edited by: Steve Audette, Jonathan Sahula and Nathan Hendrie)